Best beach near Orlando today

No beach near Orlando is a clear go today. The highest ShoreScore is Ormond Beach at 55 out of 100: Roll the Dice?

Mostly sunny, warm air and water and gentle surf. The catch: severe seaweed.

Next: Jetty Park (Cape Canaveral) at 51, Jungle Hut Park at 49 and Cocoa Beach Pier at 45.

See the full day and best window for Ormond Beach

All 17 beaches within 75 miles of Orlando, ranked

Highest ShoreScore first. The word is the call the app makes at that score.

1. 1Ormond Beach56 mi from OrlandoRoll the Dice?55
2. 2Jetty Park (Cape Canaveral)49 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectMaybe Not.51
3. 3Jungle Hut Park73 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectMaybe Not.49
4. 4Cocoa Beach Pier49 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectMaybe Not.45
5. 5Indialantic Beach59 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectMaybe Not.45
6. 6Melbourne Beach60 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectMaybe Not.45
7. 7Bonsteel Park71 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectMaybe Not.44
8. 8Satellite Beach55 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectMaybe Not.44
9. 9Flagler Beach66 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectMaybe Not.42
10. 10Sebastian Inlet73 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectMaybe Not.42
11. 11Beverly Beach69 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectMaybe Not.41
12. 12Gamble Rogers State Park64 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectMaybe Not.40
13. 13Ponce Inlet46 mi from OrlandoPass.32
14. 14New Smyrna Beach45 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectPass.24
15. 15Bicentennial Park (Ormond)58 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectPass.22
16. 16Daytona Beach52 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectPass.21
17. 17Daytona Beach Shores49 mi from Orlando · official notice in effectPass.21

An official notice means the National Weather Service or the county has something posted for that beach; open the beach for the details.

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How this list works

Every beach near Orlando gets one ShoreScore, a number from 0 to 100 that says how good a beach day it is. It comes from live weather, wind, surf, official water quality tests, the seaweed risk and rain radar, added up from now until sunset. Before sunrise and after dark it covers the whole day's light instead.

The words are the same call the app makes at each score: Definitely Go, Go, Roll the Dice, Maybe Not and Pass. When no beach reaches Go, this page says so instead of crowning a winner.

This list ranks the same numbers the live map shows, read at the time printed at the top. A beach with missing data is left out, never scored low: unknown is not bad. Open any beach for its hour by hour forecast and the best window to go.

Informational only, not for safety decisions. Lifeguards, beach flags and official notices come first at every beach, whatever the number says.

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